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Lawyer Activity Follows Entegris Bid for ATMI
An agreed take over in the semiconductor manufacturing supply chain has prompted several legal firms to postulate class-action lawsuits on the grounds that the Entegris' valuation of ATMI Inc. is too low.
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Q4 PC Shipments Disappoint as Anticipated Uptick Proves a No-show
Despite expectations of an uptick in PC sales in the fourth quarter of 2013, consumers' fondness for tablets and other forms of less-expensive mobile computing continued to take their toll.
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Semiconductor Sales Up 4.8 Percent in 2013
Record December helps boost global semiconductor sales past $300 billion for the first time ever in 2013.
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ARM Swings to Loss on IP Write Down
Fall-out from acquisition of MIPS patent portfolio hits the 4Q13 bottom line but ARM’s top line penetration into multiple markets continues.
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As One ARM Pioneer Closes Another One Opens
A comparison of the situations of Calxeda Inc. and Rex Computing shows that relying on startup silicon to attack new markets could be a weakness.
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XMOS Replaces Founding CTO with Icera Alumnus
Chip designer and entrepreneur replaces parallel processing academic as chief technology officer at event-driven microcontroller company in preparation for next phase of development.
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ARM Support Claimed for Non-filamentary ReRAM
An innovative non-volatile resistive memory called CeRAM, for correlated-electron random access memory, has attracted the interest of processor company ARM, according to the developer, a professor at the University of Colorado.
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DRAM Stockpiles Not Expected to Rise This Year—An Industry Positive
In a rousing sign of the market’s continuing health, inventories of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) won’t see an uptick anytime soon in 2014. The index measuring...
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ARM Licenses MRAM From Crocus
Processor licensor ARM licenses MRAM technologies from research lab spin-off Crocus Technology to aid the development of security and microcontroller chips.
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IBM Makes Most Advanced Graphene IC
IBM Researchers have reported on a RF receiver IC fabricated with graphene field effect transistors that operates at 4.3-GHz. Made on a silicon CMOS wafer line the circuit highlights the potential for integration with silicon control circuits.
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AMD Launches 'Seattle' 64-bit ARM Server Processor
Taking aim at Intel's turf AMD will be sampling its quad- and octa-cored 28nm, 64-bit ARM-based 'Seattle' processor this quarter. The company has exhibited a development platform for it at the Open Compute Summit in San Jose, Calif.
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Chip Industry Faces Financial Distress
The green shoots of economic recovery could be masking the fact that the semiconductor industry is becoming less profitable with consolidation a likely consequence during 2014 and beyond, according to business consultancy Alix Partners.
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FDSOI Gains Design Wins Amid Fab Partner Mystery
ST has 15 design wins for its FDSOI manufacturing process but volume manufacturing at a second-source foundry has been pushed back to 2015.
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Industrial Electronics Turns Around in 2013 with Double-Digit Growth
The global market for industrial electronics semiconductors ended 2013 on an upbeat note, with overall revenue up convincingly from the previous year and reversing the disappointing decline of 2012...
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ST Reduces Losses But Outlook Remains Weak
STMicroelectronics is forecasting a decline in its first quarter 2014 sales, partly due to falling away of legacy sales at its now discontinued joint venture ST-Ericsson.
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Feature Film Focuses on Chip Worker's Death
The Korean feature film "Another Promise" portrays a father's struggle to prove his daughter death from leukemia was the result of working conditions at a Samsung semiconductor factory south of Seoul.
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Jobs Cuts Pile Up as Chip Firms Adjust
Even as the global economy improves chip companies are finding it necessary to lay off workers. For Intel, Renesas and Texas Instruments the idea of "retain, retrain and redeploy" seems to be on the back burner.
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SMIC Starts Supplying 28nm CMOS
China's leading domestic foundry has just about joined the 28nm club having run wafers at the end of 2013. The move helps SMIC get closer to rivals such as Globalfoundries and UMC but will also see it need to get more competitive.
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IMEC Bringing Thermocompression Bonding to 3D ICs
Research institute is working with local assembly equipment supplier BE Semiconductor Industries (Besi) to bring thermocompression bonding to 3D IC production. That is the same Besi that announced just before the end of 2013 that somebody had stolen money
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TSMC Tweaks 16nm FinFET to Match Intel
TSMC maintains capex at about $10 billion and looks to spend on 16nm FinFET production, including a FinFET enhancement. TSMC appears to be taking Intel seriously as foundry competition as the enhancement is reckoned to put TSMC's 16nm process at par with t
